Cafe Lehmitz by Anders Petersen

Edward Weston’s classic images are among the best-known examples of midcentury American photography. This monograph brings together some of Weston's finest works to present his artistic evolution, from painterly observations to what became his signature “Straight Photography” style, which explored the intricacies of natural forms in a myriad of dramatic landscapes and sensual nudes. Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

Mario Testino selects his finest male portraiture from the past thirty years. As costume, gender play, photojournalism, tradition, and fashion collide, this Eden of male allure is testimony both to Testino’s unfailing eye for immediacy and elegance, and to the evolution of male self-expression. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Mario Testino, bound in Japanese cloth, and delivered in a metal slipcase.

With this new collection Maurizio Galimberti pays tribute to New York, city par excellence, which with its townscape, its great flow of people and continuous vitality is the grandiose scenario of his new work, carried out in the space of a month and featuring 180 items of individual, diptych and mosaic Polaroids. Fascinated and at the same time crushed by the imposingness of the Big Apple, the photographer at first fragmented it, by shooting a great number of images, and then recomposed it into an unreal metropolis which, however, surprisingly restores the city’s frenetic spirit. The eye of Galimberti, who has come to be known as an “instant artist”, runs over architectures and people, generating images that are halfway between painting, drawing and photography. The photos are in fact the result of a series of combined techniques: frottage and mosaics. In the first case the photographer cuts lines and signs into the photo using an ordinary toothbrush, thus overturning the meaning of the image or taking to the limits the essence of what is real. In the second he shoots dozens upon dozens of images of the same subject, subsequently creating mosaics that might contain as many as 170 Polaroids. Born in 1956 Maurizio Galimberti began as a self-taught photographer. His technique, extraordinarily versatile and outstanding on the contemporary photography scene, has allowed him to explore the most varied genres: from portraits to reportage, from travel photography to advertising. He is currently visiting professor at the Domus Academy of Milan, the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan and the European Design Institute in Turin. Language: italiano/english

Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book reveals hundreds of instant pictures by the artist. From self-portraits to still lives, anonymous nudes to New York high society, from Cabbage Patch dolls to Dolly Parton, Keith Haring to Audrey Hepburn, these impromptu images offer a unique record of the Pop Art maestro’s world. Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

Pleasure parlors: Araki's tour of an erotic underworld It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts and see-through pantyhose. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be served by a panty-free young woman. Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties "massage" parlor. Competition for customers led to an increasingly bizarre range of services from fondling clients through holes in coffins whilst they lie naked inside playing dead to interiors catering to commuter-train fetishists. One particular destination was a Tokyo club called "Lucky Hole." Here, the premise was ridiculously simple: clients stood on one side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other; in between them was a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy to pass through. Taking the Lucky Hole as his title, Nobuyoshi Araki captures Japan's sex industry in full flower, documenting in more than 800 photos the pleasure-seekers and providers of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood before the February 1985 New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act put a stop to many of the country's sex locales. Through mirrored walls, bed sheets, cages, orgies, the bondage and the groans, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of humor, precise poetry, and questioning interjections. Text in English, French, and German